3 things

Hi fredwier,

1) thumbs are supposed to catch the post thumbnail; if not present, the plugin tries to locate an image inside the post content. For a better behaviour, consider using post thumbnails.

2) at the moment you can exclude posts based on words on title, we’ll consider adding category based excludes

3) as for post views, have you enabled the “post views” settings”? If so, try to wait until the view counts grow over zero